Next thing we know we're seeing clips of Atty training Rat, Fish, and Grass (or is it called Weed? Shrub? Happy Dancing Plant?) George handing Atty and the gang icecones during a break... ect. Classic Montage stuff you know...DT walking off into the sun set mulling over the fact that her other party members have to train as well, that she can't win all the fights on her own.

@Guest: Dragonthing will gain new flame powers and the ability to detect "evil" and then run off and try to defeat the enemy all by herself because she wants to protect her friends but then Itachi Uchiha will come back from the dead to teach her about the power of friendship and teamwork.

Sorry, still can't get over how Naruto got so bad that I couldn't even watch it out of boredom anymore.

@MilkyTea: Well "work work" has been used before to describe one's paying job (which is called "work"), to separate it from general work like mowing the lawn (which is also called "work", see the conflict).

@JasperSynth: Actually it's pretty easy to do a montage in a comic, it's just much harder to do the soundtrack (or at least to make the soundtrack satisfying).

But if you just want to show the training in pieces? Drop a few panels with various things going on, dialog optional. Irregularly shaped panels that flow into each other can work well. I've seen a lot of montages in comics and almost none of them look anything like each other, it's fun place for artists to get creative and show things in a new way.

@Charidan: I think they meant that, in comic logic, it makes training montages difficult to do, not 'this is a comic so montages are difficult'.

George is basically thinking in terms of an external medium, but Atty views the comic world as the real one and thus all things are done in real-time. While it's stylistically acceptable to do a montage for the audience, from his perspective, it's still hours and hours of grinding.

@ Atticus Brent: As somebody who defeated the original E4 with no understanding of gameplay mechanics and naught but a level 80-odd Charizard with the world's greatest moveset (Ember/Flamethrower/Fire Spin/Fire Blast), I can safely say that you're wrong, you can totally leave everything to Dragonthing.